Reports

The year 2017 marked the end of IOM Sudan’s 2015-2017 Strategic Framework. The framework served as a basis to engage both Government and Member States to respond to the migration context in Sudan, by aligning programming, and focusing organizational capacity and resources through three main objectives;

A​ total of ​166,598 beneficaries were registered / verified / tracked since the begining of 2018, in which 123,246 (14,796 IDPs and 108,450 returnees) were properly registered, while the remain 44,878 individuals were tracked in different locations. From the total tracked beneficaries:

Sudan is at the centre of the East African migration route towards North Africa and Europe. Over the past decade, hundreds of irregular migrants, asylum-seekers and refugees have been transiting through Sudan every month, with some choosing to seek asylum in the country. Those on the move are mostly young Eritrean Tigrinya speakers from urban areas, but they also include Ethiopians, Somalis, South Sudanese and Syrians. Exit visa requirements from Eritrea, socio-economic challenges and protection concerns within Sudan, are often cited as reasons for moving on. They are also compelled to rely on smugglers to arrange their travel in order to seek safety in Eastern Sudan refugee camps or to move elsewhere in Sudan and beyond.

During the first six months of 2017, against the backdrop of these global processes and the country’s complex context; IOM, equipped with the relevant knowledge and expertise, provided humanitarian assistance to over half a million people in Sudan. During these six months, IOM Sudan also extended its geographical coverage to areas that were previously inaccessible due to security or other factors. The humanitarian assistance included providing improved emergency and transitional shelters, non-food items (ES/NFI), health and nutrition support, as well as water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services; which catered to the emergency needs of internally displaced persons (IDPs), returnees, resettlement of refugees; as well as durable solutions for host communities and other vulnerable affected populations.

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) in partnership with the Sudanese Ministry of Youth and Sports (MoYS) and in collaboration with the Secretariat of Sudanese Working Abroad (SSWA) organized the first youth conference in Sudan. This event was supported through generous funding from The US State Department Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration (PRM) through the “Addressing Irregular Migration Flows and Upholding Human Rights of Migrants along the North-Eastern African Migration Route and North Africa Project” NOAH III, and the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation (AICS) through the “Enhancing Sudan’sTechnical Capacity on Migration Management Project”.